Two distinguished colleagues at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) have been selected as award recipients for their exceptional service to the School and surrounding medical community. Dr. German Gallucci, chair and the Raymond J. and Elva Pomfret Nagle Associate Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Service to Harvard Medical School (HMS)/HSDM. Jane Barrow, director of the Office of Global Community Health and executive director of the HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine, has been honored as a recipient of the 2022 Daniel D. Federman Staff Award for Exceptional Institutional Service to HMS and HSDM. Both awards are presented annually by the HMS Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Partnership to HMS and/or HSDM faculty and staff members.
The Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award and the Daniel D. Federman Staff Award were established to recognized HMS/HSDM faculty and staff respectively, who have made substantial contributions in advancing the missions of HMS and HSDM. The awards recognize and celebrate faculty and staff members whose exemplary contributions have set a high standard for service through their personal initiative to provide service and engage others to do the same.
Gallucci’s nominators noted his exemplary leadership during the pandemic, including keeping the Harvard Dental Center operational and leading his team in expanding patient care in Cambridge with the establishment of a new HDC practice in Harvard Square.
“Dr. Gallucci’s leadership made an exceptional difference to students, patients, faculty, staff, and the School in general, by working through all clinical issues during this crisis and keeping the clinics operational,” wrote his nominators.
Barrow is noted to be “authentic, caring, and eternally committed to the programs of global and community health” by her nominators. In addition to helping launch the Office for Global and Community Health at HSDM, Barrow was an instrumental partner in helping to establish Rwanda’s first dental school, and has significantly grown HSDM’s initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine.
“While Ms. Barrow is constantly working on her own high level and time sensitive projects, she always makes a priority to meet with the HSDM faculty, staff, and students who work alongside her,” wrote her nominators. “She has done an extraordinary amount to make the environment of the Office of Global and Community Health, and HSDM overall, a welcoming, dynamic, and meaningful place to work.”
Gallucci was honored December 13 during the HSDM/HMS Faculty of Medicine meeting. Barrow will be recognized for her noteworthy service during an upcoming awards ceremony.
